Large scrubwren
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acanthizidae |
| Genus: | Sericornis |
| Species: | S. nouhuysi
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| Sericornis nouhuysi van Oort, 1909
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The large scrubwren (Sericornis nouhuysi) is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.
It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Taxonomy
[edit]The large scrubwren was formally described in 1909 by the Dutch ornithologist Eduard Daniël van Oort based on a specimen collected in the Jayawijaya Mountains of western New Guinea by the Dutch explorer Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz. Van Oort considered the specimen to be a subspecies on the grey-green scrubwren (Aethomyias arfakianus) and coined the trinomial name Sericornis arfakiana nouhuysi. He chose the epithet nouhuysi to honour Jan Willem van Nouhuys, Lorentz's travelling companion.[2][3][4]
Ten subspecies are recognised:[5]
- S. n. cantans Mayr, 1930 – montane Bird south Head and Arfak Mts. (northwest New Guinea)
- S. n. nouhuysi van Oort, 1909 – montane central west New Guinea
- S. n. idenburgi Rand, 1941 – Gauttier Mountains and slopes above Idenburg River (northwest New Guinea)
- S. n. stresemanni Mayr, 1930 – montane central, central east New Guinea
- S. n. adelberti Pratt, 1982 – Adelbert Range (northeast New Guinea)
- S. n. oorti Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1913 – Huon Peninsula and Herzog Mountains (northeast New Guinea)
- S. n. monticola Mayr & Rand, 1936 – montane southeast New Guinea
- S. n. jobiensis Stresemann & Paludan, 1932 – Yapen (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)
- S. n. pontifex Stresemann, 1921 – Victor Emanuel Mountains, Hunstein Range and Sepik Mountains (central north New Guinea)
- S. n. virgatus (Reichenow, 1915) – central north, northeast New Guinea (Bewani Mountains, Torricelli Mountains, Prince Alexander Mountains, and north slopes of Sepik-Ramu drainage. (includes boreonesioticus)
Subspecies S. n. virgatus, S. n. jobiensis and S. n. pontifex have sometimes been considered as a separate species, the perplexing scrubwren.[5]
References
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- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sericornis nouhuysi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T104008381A93975444. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T104008381A93975444.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ van Oort, Eduard Daniël (1909). Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907 et 1909. Vol. 9. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 90.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 421.
- ^ Jobling, James A. "nouhuysi". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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